Can a Lilac Mini Rex get a BOB?

[bobbie]

Can a Lilac Mini Rex get a BOB?

 

[luvabunny]

I supposed if lilac is an accepted color, anything is possible. I haven't shown Mini Rex in years, so don't even know if that is a showable color.

Is it "probable" for a lilac mini rex to get a BOB? Probably not. Sorry...

That said, lilac is a dilute color of chocolate, and lilacs can throw some exceptionally colored show rabbits. Even if it's not a BOB rabbit, it can still be a definite asset as a breeder.

 

[-HRanchito]

Oooh. Curious now. Are dilutes just uglier or something? Or is it because there are fewer breeders breeding lilacs? WHY?

 

[luvabunny]

Lilac is a very difficult color to get perfected. Most rabbits that are lilac are products of crosses with black, blue &/or chocolate. Lilac to lilac normally gets you a very washed out, ugly grey, not a good, deep, to the skin color.

Also, it's not necessarily the color. The body type will have much more to do with final placement than color.

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

There are some amazing lilac Mini Rex out there. Lilac is dilute Chocolate and is not any way connected to Black. Only way black is involved is if the black carries the recessive chocolate gene plus the dilute gene which is separate from the colour gene!!! Washed out or lacking colour to the skin is a genetic issue of the line that produces bad colour...NOT the issue of simply breeding dilute to dilute. We have had some amazing lilac and lynx here, the top breeder in the National Mini Rex Club has won a lot with her lilacs and chocolates! It is harder to get the agouti colours correct as opposed to the self colours as well.

 

[skysthelimit]

It is harder to get the agouti colours correct as opposed to the self colours as well.

I'll second that. which is why it is so hard for me to find and get a good castor. Agoutis go through so many phases, and a lot of people do not want to raise them. Selfs are so much easier, and my dilutes are usually the best of my litters.

 

[luvabunny]

I am no genetics expert, but it has been my experience that black crossed with lilac, chocolate and blue produced a more even, more consistent color, than dilute to dilute.
Many years ago, when there weren't so many blues, and chocolate Mini Rex were even more rare, it was quite common to cross black with both lines to "firm up" the color, because too many dilutes, such as lilac, were being produced, and at the time, those couldn't be shown.
I don't in my memory, ever remember a lilac taking best of breed. That's not to say it can't be done, and the quality has vastly improved since I have been away.